The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.